Provides a name index and full-text access to documents relating to Tasmanians from 1803 to late 1980s. Records available include:
* Arrivals (19th Century). Passengers and ships arriving, mainly in Hobart.
* Bankruptcy (1821-1928). Documents from cases of bankruptcy and insolvency.
* Births (1803-1933). People born in Tasmania including some baptisms collected by the Registrar General (1900-1933 baptisms only).
* Census (1837-1857). Householders in the 1840s and 1850s, not complete for all districts.
* Convict permissions to marry (1829-1857). Convicts applying to marry free people or other convicts.
* Convicts (1803-1893). Convicts transported to Tasmania and those convicted locally through the convict system.
* Court (1830-1858). Supreme Court. Minutes of proceedings in criminal cases.
* Deaths (1803-1939). People who died in Tasmania including some burial records collected by the Registrar General (1900-1933 burials only).
* Return of deaths for the General Hospital Hobart.
* Burial records
* Departures (1817-1887). People leaving Tasmanian ports, mainly Launceston.
* Divorces (1861-1920). Petitions for divorce in the Tasmanian Supreme Court.
* Education (1846 – 1892). The first admission register for the Hutchins School.
* Employment (1865-1902) Various employment records, mainly from the Southern Volunteer Artillery and the Inspection of Machinery Department.
* Health & Welfare (1830-1952). Patients and attendants at various hospitals and community welfare institutions.
* Hotels & Properties (1818-1958). Hotel licensees, inquests into fires, Launceston buildings and demolished hotels.
* Immigration (1912-1940). Nominations and arrivals of migrants under immigration schemes.
* Inquests (1828-1927). Inquests into people’s deaths.
* Marriages (1804-1899). People who married in Tasmania.
* Marriage certificate counterfoils (1852-1944)
* Miscellaneous (1838-1873). General correspondence of the Comptroller general of convicts and North Fleet shipwreck survivors.
* Naturalisations (1835-1904). People applying to become citizens.
* Prisoners (1895-1932). Prisoners in the Hobart Gaol.
* Wills (1824-1990). Wills and letters of administration of estates registered for probate.
* WW1 Photographs (1914-1919). Photographs and articles from the Tasmanian Mail and Weekly Courier illustrated newspaper.
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